(With full apologies to Mr. Dykstra)

While wikis work well in some circumstances (as seen with wikipedia), they are quite deadly to endeavors that work along different guidelines.This essay focuses on the drawbacks of using wikis as a platform for collaborative work groups under certain premises:
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So what happened during the past 9 months? Did I get pregnant? Did I get a cat? Well, neither. I've mostly been slouching off to work and then to come back and more or less go to bed straight away. Not much energy left for stuff after work these days. And once again, I'm looking for a new job. The confused and fucked up brain of my boss is taking ( Read more... )

Well, I moved on Wednesday. I have to say I'm glad that I'm out of that other place in Murnau. Screaming Kid was getting annoying, daddy was irresponsible and turning into scumbag and mommy was knocked up again (part of the irresponsible - people over 40 just shouldn't procreate ( Read more... )

Spent some time looking at vservers. A nice hybrid between chroot and virtual machine. Plus it's easy to migrate services from/to virtual servers and virtual servers between machines. Not as nicely as xen handles things, but ah well. I'm happy with the options they're offering at the moment. This weekend I moved all of my DMZ services into their ( Read more... )

Books first:

The Science of Diskworld 3
About evolution, the evolution of the theory of evolution and the evolution of humankinds mindset to come up with evolution. And how chaos theory applies to everyday life ( Read more... )

I'm leaving for the linux tag tomorrow. I'll be back on sunday. I don't know how the network coverage is there.

Last month, I got a mail offering me not just plain viagra, noooo sireee. I was offered viagra with accents and umlauts! better than before and you might even get a bigger cedille from using it ( Read more... )

Well, I put up a website for my mail post processor, mimicry. Put it up on freshmeat too. I wonder how many people would actually find something like that useful. *thinks of client mentioned in rationale* Well, one at least (what a bonker)...

Oh yeah,
I'm actually managing to go to the Linux Tag today. Anyone else from the usual linuxy suspects going to be there?

...and used a loophole in the law to call for re-elections (specifically, our chancellor told his party to vote that they are withdrawing their trust from him. If the majority of parliament does that, it automatically dissolves parliament and calls for re-elections). So in september we will once again have the choice between clueless and pityful. ( Read more... )